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Discover the investment strategies of everyday millionaires and learn how you can become wealthy too. Best selling author and chartered financial analyst Charles Carlson reveals the keys used by the newly wealthy to reap extraordinary dividends. Learn how to determine the amount of time needed to research and watch over your portfolio, when to buy, and equally important, when to sell.

Becoming a digital business is not about having a great Web site, setting up separate e-businesses, having next-generation software, or wiring your workforce. It's about using digital technology to become unique...to create and capture profits in new ways. How Digital Is Your Business? can show you how.

Real life stories about consumers who demand that companies make a diffence in the world with their products.

Does your family talk about money? Do your kids understand your money values? Do you and your mate agree on how you spend and invest your money? Carrie Schwab-Pomerantz and her father, Charles Schwab, collaborate to break through the traditional taboos surrounding money and to bring solid financial advice into the context of the family.

How did the newspaper, music, and film industries go from raking in big bucks to scooping up digital dimes? Their customers were lured away by the free ride of technology. Now, business journalist Robert Levine shows how they can get back on track. On the Internet, “information wants to be free.” This memorable phrase shaped the online business model, but it is now driving the media companies on whom the digital industry feeds out of business. Today, newspaper stocks have fallen to all-time lows as papers are pressured to give away content, music sales have fallen by more than half....

It might seem like everyone you know took secret classes on budgeting, owning their career, and choosing the right wine - and you were sick that day. Enter: How to Skimm Your Life. Covering everything from personal finance, to career, to stress management, global politics, and more, this book breaks down some of the less glamorous parts of being an adult.

Respect the market. Have an open mind. Know what to stake. Know when to take a loss. Be responsible,' this is what Rakesh Jhunjhunwala, India's iconic stock market investor, often used to say. This book looks at the life of India's big bull, as Rakesh was famously known, both as a person and as a professional. Providing a fascinating account of his journey, it analyzes the records of Jhunjhunwala's investments and interviews he has given over the years

In 2021, when the gavel fell at Christie’s on the sale of Mike Winkelmann’s Everydays series—a compilation of 5,000 digital artworks—it made a thunderous announcement: Non-fungible tokens had arrived. The ludicrous world of CryptoKitties and Bored Apes had just produced a piece of art worth $69.3 million (at least according to the highest bidder). On that day, the traditional art market—the largest unregulated market in the world—put its stamp of approval on a very new and carnivalesque digital reality. But what did it mean for these two worlds to collide?

Made in Future is a groundbreaking new book that seeks to recast marketing from a white sheet, with an incisive view of how vast changes in media, content, influences and people's expectations have come together to write a new story of marketing. The book challenges a lot of the accepted wisdom of the past, yet is brutal where the hype is ahead of substance. In the process, it offers an alternative journey that is conceptually whole, makes you think and helps you follow it all up with pragmatic decisions.

At the dawn of the twentieth century, a bright new age for children appeared on the horizon, with progress on ending child labor, providing public education, combating indigence, promoting wellness, and creating a juvenile justice system. But a hundred years on, the promised light has not arrived. Today, more than eleven million American children live in poverty and more than four million lack health insurance.

 The Age of Awakening tells India's economic story since the country gained independence. It unfolds a tale of titanic figures, colossal failures, triumphant breakthroughs, and great moral shortcomings. Weaving together vivid history and economic analysis, this book makes for a gripping narrative. 

Pilotos de drones que llevan a cabo asesinatos selectivos. Inmigrantes indocumentados que trabajan en los mataderos industriales. Guardias que patrullan los pabellones de las prisiones más violentas y abusivas de Estados Unidos. En ‘Trabajo sucio’, Eyal Press ofrece una visión que cambia el paradigma del panorama moral de la América contemporánea a través de las historias de las personas que realizan los trabajos éticamente más problemáticos de la sociedad. Como muestra Press, cada vez estamos más protegidos y distanciados de una serie de actividades moralmente cuestionables.

This book examines fifteen judgments that have influenced the financial destiny of India. With significant macroeconomic dimensions, these judgments, when explored, show a long-term impact on the economy.

Prasenjit Paul, a bestselling author and successful investor, who has multiplied his portfolio by more than a 100 times over the last decade, shares his wisdom on multibagger investing in this book. He recounts his wealth-creation journey and offers an easy-to-implement strategy, which anyone from any background can use to create wealth and achieve financial well-being. This book offers listeners a simple yet effective technique to identify the stocks that have the potential of generating stupendous returns.

India is witnessing a major change in the way we look at money. Having reached the middle income status as a country, a vast section of the youth is now aspiring for higher financial goals. This large population is breaking away from its parents in almost every way, including financially. But the new generation of Indians entering the workforce demand more knowledge on their investments. This book tries to help these young investors by offering them a framework they can use to create wealth in the long run.

En este libro pionero, Karlan y Appel conjugan la economía del comportamiento con la investigación de campo. Llevan a sus lectores consigo por pueblos de todo el mundo–desde Ghana hasta Kenia pasando por Sudáfrica, la India y Filipinas, Perú y México–en los que la teoría económica choca con la realidad. Muestran que ciertos cambios en la banca, los seguros, la asistencia sanitaria, la educación junto con otras iniciativas que tienen en cuenta la irracionalidad humana pueden mejorar radicalmente el bienestar de la gente pobre en todo el mundo.

 Investonomy not only explains modern value investing principles but also unveils certain secrets of the stock market. It busts popular myths and misconceptions as well. A thorough listening of this book will enable you to chart your own investment plans, and soon, you'll be all set for your personal wealth-creation journey through equity investment. 

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